It's a pity they don't sell the electronic bits (preloaded with the firmware). I can probably fashion quite a nice trackball enclosure from a block of wood; probably much nicer than 3D printed cheap-feeling plastic.
I'd be very curious to hear more about how you would go about making a wood enclosure, because I thought the same thing, but I do not have any woodworking skills. I have gotten used to the 3D-printed texture but I wouldn't mind having a nice wooden enclosure instead.
I have been very impressed by Keyboardio's use of wood, for example: https://shop.keyboard.io/ I got an Atreus with a wooden palmrest for my partner, who loves it and uses it daily. I just haven't found an open hardware mouse with similar build quality yet.
Mill two halves, then screw them together with the electronics inside?
File/Sand/Plane down a block for the top, hollow out the interior and close off the hollow with a thin balsa sheet?
The way I made propellers - with a craft knife, cut the wafer thin sheets sold by model airplane stores with successive concentric overlapping ovals for each 1mm height of the enclosure. Glue them all together and sand it down smooth.
Why don't you look it up and tell us?
:-)
Ever since I read that one I've loved being able to introduce people to things rather than doing the question mark "you should know this" sort of reply
It was a wild search tangent admittedly
I think* it has to do with not wanting to say something as 100% truth without knowing it's 100% true. Which can be interpreted as weakness/insecurity among more business/marketing minded folks.
*see my own usage of "I think"
I can see how that fits, nice one
I didn't take it as snarky[1], so I wouldn't worry about that if I were you.
[1] I even replied in kind, with a question :-)
The draw of these is that they are fully (properly) programmable and can run QMK.
Also, the form factor and things like the Ploopy Nano are super cool. And because it's open source if you don't like the hardware/software you can easily change it. We use interface devices all day, everyday. Not having an ergonomic interface will catch up with you.
Every mouse I tried (suggested by reviews) does oops clicks sometimes, so I always turn off side buttons and live with the fact that they are just there discomforting my thumb.
I don't touch the side buttons when gripping or rebasing the mouse. That's not a G502 but every mouse I've tried so far (except for the G600) has been grippable without touching any buttons.
It's almost always used ironically, but there are probably a few edgy GamerGate types who take it to heart.